EDCOLibrary - Text Sets

NonFiction and Informational Texts - Awards and Lists

Sandra's notes from June 2 2014:
What is nonfiction?

Stop using "nonfiction" carries an assumption that reading is fiction
Not about being factual truth full but modeling process of seeking truth
Many languages of nonfiction

How to speak and think in those languages
Function in the ways in which people distill truth

Learning the beginning framework

Passive absorbing that which is true
Evidence
Argument
Contention
Not passive receptors but thinkers

Taxonomy of 7 different kinds of nonfiction

Ideas
Take any event that happened last night

MLB.com - 2 facing articles from both cities
Think of a baseball and think about the ways it could be written about
All games
Rookies
Box score data
Investigative piece
What are the different ways we are treating a subject
Look at materials to see how different they are
You already do this with fiction e.g. genres
Nf much more defined by its subject rather than its clarity
Write in authentic ways

Pluto - save those 9 planet books!

You want young people seeing books disagreeing
Library show process of knowing
Nova piece
Experts disagreeing
You are smart enough to be part of this debate
Teach what is the basis
Draw evidence
Conclusions
Compare and contrast
Role is not to have the answers
Equipment to think

New models for school librarians collaborating with teachers

Voice for nonfiction a reposed the school
Building a central community around nonfiction
Talk about nonfiction in social context

What are some of the ways you can become support networks

Librarian as a central part of curriculum planning
How do we use fiction and nonfiction together
Trade nonfiction books sold in bookstore books driven by authors passion -- individual had something they wanted to communicate

Librarians know those authors those books

Look at awards for best nonfiction k-12
Make a list of the past 5 years and circulating
Print out lists
Tape down to table in teachers rooms and highlight those that meet their needs

Need for the common core is year 13 - preparing kids for after they leave k-12

The goal is not just to get good test results
It is the dynamic of life to help kids now to be prepared for life
Absorbing the challenge to help our students for when they leave us
Lab middle in New York did really well on common core test - they built curriculum by understanding what the common core was asking
School wide focus in argumentative test

Nonfiction are poorly weeded - crammed and suggests a lot there

Weed to know what is there
Save some of what you weed e.g. aids, Vietnam for the changing representation

Digital may be spectacular real flicks turf licks capstone

What are our various nonfiction collections doing?

So much available in a database
Because of writing or author - not just hunting for a fact
What are kids niche needs and interests
What need does it meet for them in each format

Nonfiction for pleasure reading - kids are under exposed to the nonfiction that they can be reading

Nonfiction as a read aloud that has great voice and narrative quality
What we spend time on as teachers hers tells kids what we value
Advocacy - your skills are crucial to the success of common core - show what you've got - your skills are needed

Concept of text sets

What are we offering ladder or reading as well as build knowledge - these are text sets.
Library Teacher is the only one that will know what you have - database, books
Multi genre - materials that curated by
Primary source
Audio clips
Poetry

5 instructional models that serve as metaphors of the thinking that kids will do...
How do you juxtapose text - the meaning of a single text changes when read within the texts of others.

Scaffold to introduce
Immersion text - dive down
Extension texts - too difficult to start with - or may me primary sources
Plated 3 video clips and audio clips
Plant a million trees
Front loading info about the topic

Keep complicating the conversation